The San Francisco Zen Middle has launched the “Suzuki Roshi Audio Archive,” that includes 29 newly found talks from founder Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.
The San Francisco Zen Middle (SFZC) has introduced the discharge of the “Suzuki Roshi Audio Archive”, a set of over 300 enhanced and remastered lectures, together with 29 misplaced lectures, from SFZC founder Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.
The 300+ recordings have been enhanced and restored with the assistance of audio restoration firm Interact Knowledge, now permitting beforehand inaudible tapes to be accessible. All the recordings have improved audio high quality, together with lowered background noise and transcriptions.
In a year-long undertaking referred to as Awakening the Archive Collection, SFZC will launch the 29 newly found talks one after the other on a bi-weekly schedule, together with an article exploring the historic context, transcripts, audio, and photographs of the unique tape reels for every particular lecture. Shundo David Haye, a priest and instructor of Suzuki Roshi’s lineage, was concerned within the audio restoration course of for the archives and has written every of those contextual articles for the 29 newly found, or particularly vital recordings.
The sequence will finish on August 13, 2022, which is able to mark SFZC’s sixtieth anniversary. The primary 4 tapes are actually accessible to view at Awakening the Archive, right here.